Meaning of security theater | Babel Free

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Security measures which are intended to, or do, provide a feeling or illusion of improved security, while doing little or nothing to actually improve security.

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“But some countermeasures provide the feeling of security instead of the reality. These are nothing more than security theater.”

“I do care about security. I survived the attack on the World Trade Center and I believe 9/11 was allowed to occur through a failure of intelligence. I thank TSA agents for searching me: applause for security theater.”

“[Bruce] Schneier agrees that Covid-19 has ushered in an era of hygiene theatre. “Like security theatre,” he says, “hygiene theatre comes from bad risk analysis – really, from ignorance.””

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